MonsterEnvy
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Honestly it's already been stated you are wrong. WotC has outright said that 5e has surpassed all other D&D editions in sales, and it did this several years ago.Then you do not have the evidence to back up your claim.
Honestly it's already been stated you are wrong. WotC has outright said that 5e has surpassed all other D&D editions in sales, and it did this several years ago.Then you do not have the evidence to back up your claim.
I agree you would need to find exact numbers and you would need those numbers before you could support any claim that 5E outsold 1E.
I think most modules sold more 20k. Then numbers I have seen written (unverified) were between 50k and 150k on average during the 1980s. Higher before the 1980s and lower in the 1990s (which would mostly be 2E).
It was at 125k per month at its peak. I think that comes from a post from Jim Ward. I assume the peak would be around 1983.
Honestly it's already been stated you are wrong. WotC has outright said that 5e has surpassed all other D&D editions in sales, and it did this several years ago.
The context has changed so much between the 80s and 20s.I don't really care about the "which sold more", because I don't see any relevance to much of anything. But including magazine sales really skews things and is really comparing apples to oranges. The magazines have been replaced by resources freely available on the internet. To really compare you'd have to look at DDB, the playtests, other sources of D&D outside of what WotC publishes. Looking at it that way, the sales of magazines are dwarfed by the amount of content currently out there and viewed on a daily basis.
The question, as with many such one-off things, isn't necessarily how many would use it; it's how many would collect it.If we weren't part way through the anniversary year already, I think an 1e style version of Phandelver might have been a cool project. Get some retro style art, a classic 1e style cover, and maybe some blue ink maps would have been a cool celebration item.
That said, there is a considerable cost in art, layout and conversion that would create a product that can only be used by a very small group of people (those with AD&D books), doesn't guide them to buy anything currently in production, and sows brand confusion to anyone who buys it thinking it's 5e compatible. All for a niche item very few people would actually use.
WotC can say what they like, but given that it's in their interests to say 5e is the best seller they're not exactly neutral reporters.Honestly it's already been stated you are wrong. WotC has outright said that 5e has surpassed all other D&D editions in sales, and it did this several years ago.
The question, as with many such one-off things, isn't necessarily how many would use it; it's how many would collect it.
Because in the end a sale is a sale, regardless of the buyer's reason for making the purchase.
Very little. There were a few things of the mass of Dragon content that became official content, but even looking at the early years of the magazine, it wasn't a big percentage.Given how much magazine material went on to become part of the game (most of Unearthed Arcana, for example, first appeared in Dragon), I'm not sure this claim holds water.